The Wall Street Journal

The WSJ recently unpacked Nick Maggiulli’s 0.01% rule and asked readers how much they allow themselves to spend worry-free. Here are some of their responses.

Comfort in a home office isn’t frivolous, it’s functional. “If the place you work makes you feel happy, it can spark creativity.” Here, some decorating moves for your home-office desk that can boost your productivity: https://on.wsj.com/46v5cTP

Whenever a young man is at the center of a widely publicized shooting or suicide, parents ask themselves the same questions: What warning signs were missed? What could have been done? “Boys are trapped in a vortex of three things: the past view of masculinity, what they know in their hearts it means to be a good man and this newer, distorted notion of toxic masculinity which says that all men are bad, violent animals,” says Michael Kimmel, professor emeritus at Stony Brook University and author of several books, including “Angry White Men.” The result has been a growing sense of loneliness and resentment that’s given rise to online communities where men find belonging, but often in ways that fuel their rage. In a culture where gaming, memes and steady streams of social video have become the baseline for teen-boy life, how can parents discern when things might be taking a dark turn? Mental-health experts who have dealt with this firsthand detail the signals suggest a boy could be struggling—and how parents can talk to their sons about their online lives. Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4nAlfXf

Bank of America stands to earn $130 million for its work on the railroad megadeal between Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.

Homeowners are spending big on catios, enclosed outdoor patios designed to keep cats safe while outside. “I’m giving them the most enriched life they can have while keeping them safe.” 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/46dCat5

From Opinion: Prosperity raised our BMI the same way it raised living standards: by giving us cheap energy and saving us from back-breaking labor. The path forward isn’t to retreat from abundance or scold our diets. It’s to invest in science, writes Tony LoSasso.

When President Trump launched his immigrant crackdown, sanctuary cities like Boston vowed to hold their ground. Such “sanctuary jurisdictions” have enacted a patchwork of laws that limit local police from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. That includes tipping off ICE before releasing a potential deportation subject who had been jailed on unrelated criminal charges. For Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd Lyons, who grew up in South Boston, that was outrageous. “Sanctuary does not mean safer streets,” Lyons said on a podcast in late August. “It means more criminal aliens out and about the neighborhood.” ICE responded with a surge of arrests, in some cases using forceful tactics.In May alone, a push to target immigrants in Massachusetts charged with serious crimes—dubbed Operation Patriot—yielded nearly 1,500 arrests. The agency proclaimed it “the most successful operation in ICE history.” Now, ICE is replicating this blueprint nationwide in places like Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and, most recently, Chicago, where an agent late last week fatally shot a driver whom ICE said drove his car into a group of officers and dragged one of them. An examination of the initial New England experiment, based on internal ICE data and video evidence, reveals what a radical departure it was from standard procedure—and signals the level of disruption in store for other states and cities that resist the deportation push. Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/3IkWG1K

A new strain of financial advice suggests support for grown children is fine—even necessary as rising rents and college costs have made it tough for younger generations to find their footing. Read more: 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/48qsjBw

Review: Paul Greengrass directs "The Lost Bus," a film set during a 2018 wildfire in Northern California, featuring Matthew McConaughey at the wheel of an imperiled bus full of schoolchildren.

The 0.01% rule: a low-stress way to think about how you spend your money. 🔗: https://on.wsj.com/4nXkkRd